Is The Video Game Industry Collapsing?
The gaming industry's old model is falling apart. RAM costs are skyrocketing, making new consoles scarce and unaffordable. The industry is b...
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Factually! with Adam Conover
Comedian Adam Conover talks to exceptional experts, revealing shocking truths and thought-provoking new perspectives. It’s an investigative comedy podcast for curious people who never stop a...
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20 of 432 episodesAI Has Ruined the Internet
Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/adam and use code adam to protect your privacy! -- Does the internet seem a lot wo...
The Philosophy of Good Sex with Quill R. Kukla
Consent has been the focal point of discussions around sex in our society, and rightly so. But consent is, or should be, the bare minimum. P...
Your Wine and Beer are Deadlier than Fentanyl with Isabella Cueto and Lev Facher
Alcohol kills more Americans each year than all other drugs combined. So why aren't we treating it like the public health crisis that it is?...
Leaf Blowers are Killing Us
Leaf blowers: a study in how to suck and blow at the same time. Visit https://groundnews.com/factually to stay fully informed, see through b...
The Unsung Queer History of Pop Music with Barry Walters
Queer artists have had a profound and wonderful influence on our society throughout history, and nowhere is that more evident than in the fi...
Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Stop AI Theft
It's no secret that AI is stealing from us. From data to intellectual property to our very humanity, it's clear we need more time to take co...
Work From Home is Making Us Miserable
You might think you like working from home, but we're starting to see the harm. -- SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/adam...
Yep. Data Centers Suck A**. with Brian Frange and Memo Torres
The dems just opened their pockets and a metaphorical moth flew out, but at least we have all these new data centers, eh? It's so cool. It's...
Billionaires are Lying About Giving Away Their Wealth, with Glen Galaich
Philanthropy is broken. Or maybe it’s not—after all, the funds that billionaires set up are deliberately cumbersome tax havens rather than a...
Rise of the Diarrhea Parasite with Trixie Mattel and Dylan Adler
Move over World Cup halftime show, the biggest shitshow this week is still the cyclospora outbreak. Unless, of course, you’re counting the T...
The World According to the Chinese Internet, with Yi-Ling Liu
Seriously, what is life actually like in China? The American discourse on China is so bad, so poisoned, so laden with agendas, it’s difficul...
ICE Murders and the Maine Senate Scramble with David Dayen and David Weigel
More horrific murders from ICE, an exhausting scramble to find a candidate to replace Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race, and a massive...
Queer Parenthood, Grief, and Salmon with Joe Osmundson
Choosing whether or not to become a parent can be a profoundly difficult decision, but it only becomes more difficult when you’re queer. Joe...
Platner Drops Out, Trump Interferes in World Cup, with Amy Silverberg and Julia Wick
It’s been a week of twists and turns with Graham Platner dropping out of the Maine Senate race, and Trump interfering with the World Cup onl...
BoJack Creator’s Comedy Origins, with Raphael Bob-Waksberg
For the past decade, Raphael Bob-Waksberg has pioneered the niche genre of hilarious-yet-heartwrenching animated TV comedies. The BoJack Hor...
Is Facebook Finally Dying? with Julia Angwin
Meta is on the decline. For the first time ever, they’ve shown a decline in active users. They’ve lost ungodly amounts of money on projects...
Why Hollywood Killed the TV Sitcom
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue origina...
The AI Bubble is Ready to Burst, with Brennan Lee Mulligan and Ed Zitron
Smell that? Is that the stench of the algae bloom in Washington? Or maybe the odor of a big honkin’ AI bubble that is ready to burst? I’ll t...
You Deserve to Be Paid More, with Dino Guastella
Politicians love to talk about lowering prices, but they really don’t like to talk about the other half of the equation: actually raising wa...